Compliance Specialist

Support the growth of the product category and the growth of the regulatory complexity by ensuring close partnership with Compliance Insights, CORA and partners to implement and embed legal requirements and new markets into efficient processes and ways of working.

Ability to manage partners to ensure clear project prioritization aligned to workload capacity. Identify and drive efficient system user requirements to support efficient processes.

What is the direct impact of this role on the team or organization?

Compliance Specialist is responsible for the assessment and reporting of Vapour and MO products to ensure the business is legally compliant and can launch and remain in market. The role will require rapidly gained expertise in the product and the legal compliance requirements for this product category and will require pro-active partner engagement to ensure that projects and partners clear on the compliance requirements to be planned into projects.

Reports to

Snr Product Compliance Manager - Vapour and Modern Oral

Number of Direct Reports

None

Core Relationships

Internal

• GR&D and Product Teams


• CORA and Legal Teams (Global)


• Global and Regional NPI Teams


• Marketing (Global, Regional and Local end markets)


• Product Managers


• Consumer Product Safety Teams


• Global Quality and Factories


• Planning team


External

• External Partners (3rd parties)


• External Suppliers, Providing accurate and on time delivery of legal compliance outcomes and/or reporting requirements according to project priority or end market legal requirements.


• Support LM in providing user requirements and system development testing to enable efficient assessment and reporting of products through our systems.


• Support the training of legal assessment and reporting as required.


• Partner management from Develop to Deploy to ensure clear project prioritisation.


• Accurate planning and capacity management through Planning processes.


• Identify and drive innovative ways of working to deliver process efficiencies.


• Providing technical support to the Product Compliance team, and all partners on all product assessment and reporting related matters.


• Ensures the confidentiality of all supplier information is maintained to ensure their trust, support and co-operation.


• Working effectively in a highly dynamic and challenging working environment, balancing competing priorities and providing leadership in a key area of the business.


• Knowledge of the PLM process and confidence to challenge own and partner ways of working to meet business requirements.


• Ability to engage with external suppliers and respond to end market authority queries responsibly with knowledge and confidence.


CAN THIS BE YOUR FUTURE ROLE?

• Do you have experience in legal compliance assessments or legal reporting of other product categories?


• Are you familiar with the PLM process from Discover to Deploy, the Product Compliance protocols and the required partner teams to engage with?


• Are you familiar with SAP and 3DX systems?
  
  A degree in a relevant science or legal field and/or demonstrable experience and positive track record.


• Good IT skills including MS office, SAP and 3DX.


• Good verbal and writing capabilities in English. Experience in technical report writing desirable.


• Partner engagement to drive clear processes or clear priorities.


• Self-starter with ability to work unsupervised and under pressure whilst maintaining flexibility.


• Good attention to detail.


Technical / Functional / Leadership Skills Required

• Ability to manage upwards effectively and assertively, as well as within the peer group, to acquire the necessary information, and help drive and inform the decision-making process by the appropriately placed people (both at the senior and junior level).


• Able to deal proactively and confidently when faced with a high level of ambiguity and tight time constraints.


• Excellent technical written and verbal reasoning skills.


• Strong teammate who collaborates with peers to support critical projects and deliverables.


• Positive "can-do" attitude and effective problem solver.


BENEFICIAL

• PLM process knowledge and/or project management experience.


• Previous experience of CPS and legal assessments for other product categories and/or previous experience in compiling legal reports or product notifications for external authorities.


• Working knowledge of MO products and the relevant product compliance requirements.
  
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• Share Reward Scheme (free shares and share saving scheme), Group Personal Accident Insurance, Life Assurance


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What are the key objectives and expectations from this role?

Accurate, on time in full assessment and reporting of BAT consumables by application of legal rules through defined Product Regulatory Compliance (PRC) processes across every stage of the PLM process to ensure legal compliance to specific market regulatory requirements.